Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-07

dOOuI eiRnJ years 10 get 10 De q mer-
chant. Some Of you will be clerks al,
your lives, but the vast majority of you
ire only in a transient position. After
awhile, some December day. the head
men of the firm will call you into the
back office, and they will say to you:
Now, you have done well by rs; ",
are going to do we'll by you. We in
vite you to have an interest in the con-
Germ You will bow to that edici
very gracefully. Getting into a street
car to go home, an Old comrade will
meet You and say: what makes you
look SO happy tonight" oh" you
will say. nothing, nothing But IN
n few days your name will blossom on
the sign. Either in the store or bank.
where you are now or in some other
store or bank, you will take a higher
position than that which you now oc-
cupy. So 1 feel to-day that | am stand
ing before people who will yet have
their
HAND On THE HELM
OF the worlds commerce, and you will
turn it this way or that; now clerks,
but to be bankers, importers, insur-
ance company directors, shippers, con-
tractors, superintendent of railroads
your voice mighty "on Change
- standing foremost in the
great financial and religious
enterprises of the day. For,
though we who are in the profession
may, on the platform, plead for the
phiianthropies. after all, the merchants
must come forth with their millions to
sustain the movement. Be, therefore,
patient and diligent in this transient
position. You are now where you can
learn things you can never learn in any
other place. What you consider your
disadvantages are your grand oppor-
tunIti,s. You see an afluent father
some day come down on II prominent
street with his son, who has just grad
uated from the university, and estab-
fishing him in business, putting one
hundred thousand dollars Of capital IN
the store. Well, you are envious. You
say: 20, if | only had 4 chance like
that young man-if | only had a father
to put one hundred thousand dollars in
n business for me. then | would have
some chance in the world"
BE NOT RNvIoUs.
You have advantages over that young
man which he has not over you. AS
well might | come down to the docks
WHEN n vessel is about to sail for Val
paraiso. and say: "Let me pilot this
ship out Of the Narrows." Why.
would sink crew and cargo before | got
out If the harbor, simply because |
know nothing anout pilotage. Wealthy
sea captains put their ons befoIe the
mast for the reason that they know
that it is the only place where they can
learn To be successful sailors. 1t is
only under drill that people get to un-
derstand pilotage aud navigation, and
| want You to understand that it takes
no more skill To conduct a vessel IA OF
the harbcr and across the sea than to
steer a commercial estab Iishment clear
of the rocks. You see every day the
folly Of people going into a business
tn y know no hing about. A man
makes n fortune in one business
thinks there is another occupation
more comfortable; goes into it and
SINKS all. Many Of the commercial es.
Establishments Of our cities are giving tc
their clerks n mercantile education as
thorough as Yale, or Harvard, OF
Princetown are giving scientific attain.
,.Nt IN thn atIlI..aYo pa.frtntrl.t tad
The reason there are So many men
laundering in business from year to
year is because their early mercantile
education was neglected. Ask these
! men high in commercial circles. and
thy viii tell you that they thank God
for this
SEVERE DISCIPLINE
| OF their early cleIkship. You can If,
ford TO endure the wilderness march, il
it is going to end in the whey ards and
orchards Of The promised land. But
yoa say: ''Wiil the womanly clerks
in our stores have promotion?' Yes.
Tine is coming when women will be
as well paid for their toll in CONNER
cial circles AS men are now paid for
their toll. Time is coming when a
woman viii be allowed to do anything
she can do well. 1t is only II little
while ago when women knew nothing
of telegraphy. and they were kept out
of "a great many commercial circles
where they are now welcome; and the
time will go on until the woman who
at one counter in "A store sells $4,000
worth Of goods in a year, will get AS
hi9h a salary as the man who, at the
other counter of the same store, sells
$4,000 worth Of goods. All honor to
Lydia, the Christian saleswOman. And
in passing, ] may as we'll say that you
merchants who have female clerks in
your store ought to treat them with
great
COURTESY AND KINDNESS.
When thcy are not positively engaged,
let them sit down. la England and
the United States physicians have pro-
tested against the habit of compelling
the woman clerks in the stores to stand
when ii was 10 necessary for them to
stand. Therefore. | add to The protest
OF physicians the protes Of the Christ
ian church, and in the name
Of good health and the God who
has made the WomaUiy constitution